I think you intended this for another post. Again, there was no sophisticated, statistical analysis for ranking. It was very subjective with the AP being the newspaper and the coaches poll a few coaches. It doesn't mean they were wrong, just that the means were more subjective...as was the placement of the teams in the tourney...
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Why this Hoosier fan is giving you a hard time, I have NO idea.
IU was ranked #1 for all of the 74-75 and 75-76 season because they didn’t lose a regular season game for two years. Don’t overthink this grandpa. There’s nothing subjective about ranking a team #1 who doesn’t lose. Not that hard to grasp.
no problem. unreasonable people exist in all stripes...
feel privileged I'm trying to help you. You can thank me years later like a lot of undeveloped brains with opinions. 1) I'll make it simple just using your emotional stance. If the real one and two teams play each other and they lose and a team doesn't play them having the opportunity to lose then obviously we can't say that team that never loss was number one. It very well could be, but it doesn't meet the criteria of proof...or even solid logic. 2) I "think" it is illogical to "over think", but very logical and quite common to "under think". What could occur with "over thinking" is paralysis by analysis which is an entirely different thing, but we are already in entirely different things. 3) you have yet to prove my statements (subjective) as false and again the above helps show you are misguided.
Lol.
No. Your post was whiny and dumb. And you couldn't back it up. "People dismissed me >sniff<."
My take as well. They rushed the court last year when they won at home, too. This year they were picked to win the B10 this year and everyone expected Purdue to be rebuilding. Purdue has been very, very good and, by comparison to expectations, IU has sucked. Think about what that does to their psyche. Before last year none of the players or students in the stands had seen IU beat Purdue. Any time they can beat Purdue, it is a major victory for them.
BoilerAndy: "Nobody dismissed your post"
A counterpoint is "dismissing"? lol. You are indeed the sensitive one.
What do you think the AP Poll is now? It is subjective and determines who is #1 in the country. It's just the opinion of journalist around the country.
Go back and read number 1 and you will find an answer. You ignored 1 & 2. You are getting rather boring and the apparent inability to grasp what I said is getting very redundant and tiresome. I’m trying to help you with facts that disagree with what you say in that your interpretation as the only one is illogical and you don’t grasp it. Then you tell me to turn my brain on….
It's group think recency biased shit, similar to your posts actually...
